Indian Rock Art of the Southwest
Author: Polly Schaafsma
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780826309136
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The comprehensive book on Indian petroglyphs in the Southwest.
Author: Polly Schaafsma
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780826309136
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The comprehensive book on Indian petroglyphs in the Southwest.
Author: James D. Keyser
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2016-06-01
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0295806842
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Plains region that stretches from northern Colorado to southern Alberta and from the Rockies to the western Dakotas is the land of the Cheyenne and the Blackfeet, the Crow and the Sioux. Its rolling grasslands and river valleys have nurtured human cultures for thousands of years. On cave walls, glacial boulders, and riverside cliffs, native people recorded their ceremonies, vision quests, battles, and daily activities in the petroglyphs and pictographs they incised, pecked, or painted onto the stone surfaces. In this vast landscape, some rock art sites were clearly intended for communal use; others just as clearly mark the occurrence of a private spiritual encounter. Elders often used rock art, such as complex depictions of hunting, to teach traditional knowledge and skills to the young. Other sites document the medicine powers and brave deeds of famous warriors. Some Plains rock art goes back more than 5,000 years; some forms were made continuously over many centuries. Archaeologists James Keyser and Michael Klassen show us the origins, diversity, and beauty of Plains rock art. The seemingly endless variety of images include humans, animals of all kinds, weapons, masks, mazes, handprints, finger lines, geometric and abstract forms, tally marks, hoofprints, and the wavy lines and starbursts that humans universally associate with trancelike states. Plains Indian Rock Art is the ultimate guide to the art form. It covers the natural and archaeological history of the northwestern Plains; explains rock art forms, techniques, styles, terminology, and dating; and offers interpretations of images and compositions.
Author: Edward J. Lenik
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781584651970
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Located along rivers, at the edges of lakes, on mountain boulders, in rock shelters, on rock ledges where the continent meets the ocean, and tucked into parks and public places, American Indian rock art offers tantilizing glimpses of the signs and symbols of a Native American culture. Picture Rocks documents all known permanent petroglyph and pictograph sites from the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the six New England states, New York, and New Jersey. Some sites are subject to disputes over their origins—Indian or Portuguese? Some are ancient, and others, such as the work of the Mi’kmaq, were executed in the past 200 years. Many of these sites are little known; others, like those at Bellows Falls, Vermont, are sources of great local pride and appear on city walking tours. Interspersing his own interpretations with comments from scholars and Native American storytellers, Edward J. Lenik provides a definitive look at an extraordinary art form. Two hundred illustrations include historic sketches by early Euro-American colonists, nineteenth-century photographs, and recent photographs and drawings of the current conditions of many sites.
Author: Leslie G. Kelen
Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sixty color and 15 bandw photographs utilize natural light and show Utah's prehistoric rock art images in the context of the surrounding canyons. The photos are presented with brief captions, and with the words of Ute, Paiute, Hopi, and Northwest Shoshone individuals who describe the what the art means to them personally. An introductory essay discusses the various artistic styles of native peopls of this region over a period of 8,000 years. N. Scott Momaday supplied the foreword. A lovely book. No index or references. 10x11" Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Yvette La Pierre
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781565660649
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An introduction to native American art through petroglyphs and pictographs.
Author: Linea Sundstrom
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780806135960
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides a look at the history of the Black Hills country over the last ten thousand years through rock art, which illustrates the rich oral traditions, religious beliefs, and sacred places of the Lakota, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Mandan, and Hidatsa Indians who once lived there. Original
Author: Edward J. Lenik
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 081735509X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A full range of rock art appearances, including dendroglyphs, pictographs, and a selection of portable rock objects The Indians of northeastern North America are known to us primarily through reports and descriptions written by European explorers, clergy, and settlers, and through archaeological evidence. An additional invaluable source of information is the interpretation of rock art images and their relationship to native peoples for recording practical matters or information, as expressions of their legends and spiritual traditions, or as simple doodling or graffiti. The images in this book connect us directly to the Indian peoples of the Northeast, mainly Algonkian tribes inhabiting eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland and the lower Potomac River Valley, New York, New Jersey, the six New EnglandStates, and Atlantic Canada. Lenik provides a full range of rock art appearances in the study area, including some dendroglyphs, pictographs, and a selection of portable rock objects. By providing a full analysis and synthesis of the data, including the types and distribution of the glyphs, and interpretations of their meaning to the native peoples, Lenik reveals a wealth of new information on the culture and lifeways of the Indians of the Northeast.
Author: Thor Conway
Publisher: NorthWord Books for Young Readers
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781559712132
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A guide to the deeper meanings of rock art. The author spent more than 20ears travelling to rock art sites across the United States and Canada,arning the trust of native elders and preserving their insights.
Author: Campbell Grant
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13:
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